Ashokan Farewell

I first heard this song back in highschool during a Civil War-era documentary film and instantly fell in love with it. It wasnt until years later (heh, now!) that I found the music for it and have just started playing it.

Never mind the complete loss of tune at the end as I'm not a very good player!

Category:

Music

Tags:

• fiddle

[LFSPwned]

NOOB!

[Kusiami]

Hey Nick! lol

[debwebbowsky]

Yes, Just longer " bows" Great!

[hypnotist02]

Do you teach fiddle..

[cutiemarshmallow]

hello what about the very high part at the end

[MrGameface]

what a great song... to bad it was written for such a crap insterment.

j/k!

but not really......

[sleaponit21]

if your arse was as big as your mouth LOL your guts would fall out you pig

[UnmaskedSiren]

Nice job, better than most.

You should work on connections and bow distribution. If you can't do the slide neatly, sometimes it's better to leave it out. With vibrato, try to make it continuous. It's hard to tell from the video, and I may be wrong, but it seems like you're moving your whole arm rather than just the wrist and fingers for your vibrato, which can be troublesome.

Good job, though. You seem to have a nice grasp of the emotion of the song.

[bethpage89]

Sounds great. Good feeling. Post some more videos.

[11marini]

Good start. Aside from what was said about taking it a little slower, I'd say try connecting the notes more. Right now you get a swell in each note, instead a general line. If you can add that, you'll find your playing to be more expressive than you can imagine. But it takes a lot of control.

[rayraspi]

I agree -- relax :) have a beer... slooooow it down a bit and hold those notes :)

Great job! Great Tune!

[dkd24]

Good intination, but needs to be slowed down

: )